The Pope's New Cardinals

The last Pope put small business start-up in the category of charitable institutions.  I had to think that through, but in time it made sense.  Small business certainly isn't predatory, like our corporations.

This Pope has added some new cardinals.  The rank is "prince" and their function is advisory to the Pope.  A country is proud to have a Cardinal, and even Communist Vietnam relented in its anti-Catholicism when one of her boys made Cardinal.  The Notre Dame Cathedral in Saigon, aka HCM City, is fully operational.

One of the new cardinals, Soane Patita Paini Mafia, hails from Tonga, a Pacific island where a tiny Catholic community of some 17,000 is threatened with losing its home because of climate change.
Another, Cardinal Francesco Montenegro, presides over an archdiocese that includes Lampedusa, the first European landfall for tens of thousands of migrants crossing the Mediterranean.
Also notable among the new appointments is Cardinal Jose Luis Lacunza Maestrojuanan from Panama, who has campaigned to protect indigenous peoples.
The latest members of the College of Cardinals include five retired bishops who are over 80 and so cannot take part in a papal election.
It is the second time Pope Francis has announced the appointment of new cardinals from a wide variety of countries.
Last January he named 19 new additions, including churchmen from Haiti and Burkina Faso, which a Vatican spokesman said reflected his commitment to the poor.

So what is going on?  Don't fall for the "global warming" nonsense, the Pope is not an idiot.  Jesus is far more interesting than "global warming" or "single payer health care"or "Islamic threat." Popes are masters of "embrace and extend" that is, engage the conversation on the malefactors terms, then move it forward to a less than destructive end.  Although the "climate change" sinecure movement is now over, its adherents are as dangerous as the Nazi remnants funded by the USA in the Ukraine.

What's going on?  Maybe...

And he said also unto his disciples, There was a certain rich man, which had a steward; and the same was accused unto him that he had wasted his goods. And he called him, and said unto him, How is it that I hear this of thee? give an account of thy stewardship; for thou mayest be no longer steward. Then the steward said within himself, What shall I do? for my lord taketh away from me the stewardship: I cannot dig; to beg I am ashamed. I am resolved what to do, that, when I am put out of the stewardship, they may receive me into their houses. So he called every one of his lord's debtors unto him, and said unto the first, How much owest thou unto my lord? And he said, An hundred measures of oil. And he said unto him, Take thy bill, and sit down quickly, and write fifty. Then said he to another, And how much owest thou? And he said, An hundred measures of wheat. And he said unto him, Take thy bill, and write fourscore. And the lord commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely: for the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light unjust in the least is unjust also in much. If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches? And if ye have not been faithful in that which is another man's, who shall give you that which is your own? No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

— Luke 16:1-13, King James Bible

Something like that?  Settling up before the coming reckoning?  Is Catholicism about to be wiped out in the West?  Here is what Chicago's  Francis Cardinal George had to say...

I am (correctly) quoted as saying that I expected to die in bed, my successor will die in prison and his successor will die a martyr in the public square. 

Read on to his fuller explanation.

As I understand it, human sacrifice, killing people so your life can be better, will get you judged every time.  And in USA Catholics lead the way: right wing Catholics say it is ok to kill adults, left wing Catholics say it is ok to kill children (and the browner and darker the better for both), both under the ultimate rubric of making their lives better.

It gets you judged every time.  There is always repentance, but pride before the fall.

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